President Donald Trump has dismissed questions about his health and ridiculed his Democratic opponent for wearing a mask at a freewheeling rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday, leading to a runoff election.
For the second day, Trump dismissed
questions about an unexpected visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in November,
calling a report about the visit a conspiracy by critics. Meanwhile, Trump has
raised baseless questions about Biden's health, and criticized him for wearing
a mask.
"They want me to try to be on Biden's
physical level," Trump told a crowded rally in an airport hangar outside
Pittsburgh. "I don't like rumors like that. It's not true."
Trump was responding to a new book that
emphasized that Vice President Mike Pence had been put’ on "standby"
to take over the presidency during Trump's surprise visit to Walter Reed
Medical Center in November.
The White House says Trump went to Walter
Reid as part of his annual body part.
Although the book, written by New York
Times reporter Michael Schmidt, does not address the issue of health, Trump has
pointed to questions raised by his critics on social media about whether he was
involved in a series of "Monstrokes." Have endured There is no
evidence to support the idea that Trump suffered any kind of stroke.
Trump has become increasingly focused’ on
the story in recent days, and has used it as part of an attempt to persuade
critics to resign.
"Then yesterday I read that I had a
stroke - they called me," Trump said. "I don't know what Monster rock
is, but it's not good."
Trump spent little time discussing the
epidemic or its economic consequences. After telling his audience that he would
wear a mask if he celebrated Labor Day weekend with others, he tore Biden off
when he was often seen’ in public with the mask.
"Have you ever seen someone like a
mask?" Trump asked a crowd that, based on photos posted on social media,
large numbers of masks appeared free. "It gives her a sense of
security."
The Biden campaign mocked Trump for
talking about his health.
Biden's spokesman Andrew Bates said in a
tweet directed to his Trump campaign counterpart, "Why is he talking about
money strokes?"
Jonathan Rainer, a professor of medicine
and surgery at George Washington University, said Trump's persistent refusal to
wear a mask has nothing to do with health and "falsehood."
"The way he looked and he didn't
think it made him weak," Rainer said. "That's what happened when the
president's drugs hit the needs of the country. Narcissism won."
Trump crashed in Lit rob, about 50 miles
east of Pittsburgh, just before 7 p.m. ET and Arnold Palmer spoke at the
regional airport - amid coronavirus epidemics, continuing the current style of
campaigning in partial outdoor airport hangars.
"We're doing hangers-on now because
it's not possible because of the plains, the epidemics," Trump admitted.
Trump said he preferred airport rallies because he could just get off the
plane, give a speech "and get the hell out of here."
The rally is Trump's second major campaign
event since the Republican National Convention last week.
The rally was another example of the
president's campaign, which drew large crowds at a time when Trump was seeking
to bring the country back to normal. Trump held a mass rally in New Hampshire
last week and, a few days earlier, gathered a large group at an outdoor venue
in South Lawn to hear his acceptance speech at the party's convention.
Both campaigns predict that Biden will
tighten his grip on the race after taking a two-digit lead for most of the
summer, and there are signs that are beginning to take shape. Biden led Trump
50-43 in the USA / Suffolk University poll published this week. The 12-point
gain in June dampened that gain.
In Pennsylvania, Biden has a 4-point lead
over Trump among registered voters and a 1- to 3-point lead among potential
voters, according to a Monmouth University poll this week. Pool director
Patrick Murray called the race an "inch game."
Trump has largely reactivated his stump
speech to focus more on criticizing Biden and defending the administration's
response to his pandemic and the resulting economic downturn. He began
attacking Biden Blood on Thursday.
"Joe Biden wants to hand over his
jobs to China," he said, without providing evidence to support the
baseless claim.
Latrobe is known’ as the birthplace of
golfer Arnold Palmer, whose charming and aggressive style attracted thousands
to the sport during the 1950s and 1960s.
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